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Over the course of the last 23 plus years, I have enjoyed the opportunity to go and see many bands in a live setting. As my readers know, I have seen Yes by far the most, but, contrary to popular belief, Yes (and their openers) is/are not the only band(s) I have ever seen live.

After so many years and shows, I thought it would be fun to try and list and catalogue all the shows I have seen. I think the list below is about as comprehensive as I can create, and it does not, obviously, include live bands in bars and community festivals and such.

I have also, over the course of this blog, put up numerous posts of tour programs, tickets, reviews, and other things I have collected over the years at concerts. Here they are below:

Porcupine Tree was, for a number of years, my favorite new progressive rock band and, as a result, I tried to go see them as much as I could when I was not seeing Yes. I have posted about them a number of times in this blog and you can find those posts below:

As my readers know, I am a very avid concert goer. Granted, since I have had children, I have had less time and less money to dedicate to seeing shows, but I still try to get two or three in every year.

For fun, I have already posted some tickets before, which you can find here:

At each NEARFest, the Festival organizers created a weekend event program. I was lucky enough to have purchased one from all of the Festivals I attended, and I will post photographs of them all here. These programs were expertly crafted with many beautiful photographs and well written descriptions and histories and such. Of course, they also contain their fair share of ads, as one may expect. I got most (maybe all) of the programs I purchased at NEARFest over the years autographed by the artist who drew its cover and, in this case, that was Yes and Asia cover artist Roger Dean.

I was able to purchase a program at NEARFest 2012, and I thought it would be fun to post it here for prog rock fans who may not have had the opportunity to go to the Festival and/or purchase the program. Accordingly, I took photographs of each page of the program and posted them below.

I also posted a review of NEARFest 2012 which you can see here. The review contains many photographs from the event.

At each NEARFest, the Festival organizers created a weekend event program. I was lucky enough to have purchased one from all of the Festivals I attended, and I will post photographs of them all here. These programs were expertly crafted with many beautiful photographs and well written descriptions and histories and such. Of course, they also contain their fair share of ads, as one may expect. I got most (maybe all) of the programs I purchased at NEARFest over the years autographed by the artist who drew its cover and, in this case, that was Yes and Asia cover artist Roger Dean.

I was able to purchase a program at NEARFest 2010, and I thought it would be fun to post it here for prog rock fans who may not have had the opportunity to go to the Festival and/or purchase the program. Accordingly, I took photographs of each page of the program and posted them below.

I also posted a review of NEARFest 2010 which you can see here. The review contains many photographs from the event.

At each NEARFest, the Festival organizers created a weekend event program. I was lucky enough to have purchased one from all of the Festivals I attended, and I will post photographs of them all here. These programs were expertly crafted with many beautiful photographs and well written descriptions and histories and such. Of course, they also contain their fair share of ads, as one may expect. I got most (maybe all) of the programs I purchased at NEARFest over the years autographed by the artist who drew its cover and, in this case, that was Yes and Asia cover artist Roger Dean.

I was able to purchase a program at NEARFest 2009, and I thought it would be fun to post it here for prog rock fans who may not have had the opportunity to go to the Festival and/or purchase the program. Accordingly, I took photographs of each page of the program and posted them below.

I also posted a review of NEARFest 2009 which you can see here. The review contains many photographs from the event.

At each NEARFest, the Festival organizers created a weekend event program. I was lucky enough to have purchased one from all of the Festivals I attended, and I will post photographs of them all here. These programs were expertly crafted with many beautiful photographs and well written descriptions and histories and such. Of course, they also contain their fair share of ads, as one may expect. I got most (maybe all) of the programs I purchased at NEARFest over the years autographed by the artist who drew its cover and, in this case, that was Yes and Asia cover artist Roger Dean.

I was able to purchase a program at NEARFest X (2008), and I thought it would be fun to post it here for prog rock fans who may not have had the opportunity to go to the Festival and/or purchase the program. Accordingly, I took photographs of each page of the program and posted them below.

I also posted a review of NEARFest X (2008) which you can see here. The review contains many photographs from the event.

At each NEARFest, the Festival organizers created a weekend event program. I was lucky enough to have purchased one from all of the Festivals I attended, and I will post photographs of them all here. These programs were expertly crafted with many beautiful photographs and well written descriptions and histories and such. Of course, they also contain their fair share of ads, as one may expect. I got most (maybe all) of the programs I purchased at NEARFest over the years autographed by the artist who drew its cover and, in this case, that was Yes and Asia cover artist Roger Dean.

I was able to purchase a program at NEARFest 2007, and I thought it would be fun to post it here for prog rock fans who may not have had the opportunity to go to the Festival and/or purchase the program. Accordingly, I took photographs of each page of the program and posted them below.

I also posted a review of NEARFest 2007 which you can see here. The review contains many photographs from the event.

At each NEARFest, the Festival organizers created a weekend event program. I was lucky enough to have purchased one from all of the Festivals I attended, and I will post photographs of them all here. These programs were expertly crafted with many beautiful photographs and well written descriptions and histories and such. Of course, they also contain their fair share of ads, as one may expect. I got most (maybe all) of the programs I purchased at NEARFest over the years autographed by the artist who drew its cover and, in this case, that was Yes and Asia cover artist Roger Dean.

I was able to purchase a program at NEARFest 2006, and I thought it would be fun to post it here for prog rock fans who may not have had the opportunity to go to the Festival and/or purchase the program. Accordingly, I took photographs of each page of the program and posted them below.

I also posted a review of NEARFest 2006 which you can see here. The review contains many photographs from the event.

The Festival began as a Saturday/Sunday event (11am to about 11pm each day), but quickly expanded to Friday evening as well. In 2000, there was an “official pre-show” on the Friday evening prior to that NEARFest (see here), but not much detail about who organized it was given. It just seemed like a couple of bands booked the evening before the Festival and were then given the NEARFest imprimatur. The same thing seemed to occur in 2001 (see here and here). In 2002 and 2003 there was a Friday pre-show sponsored by The Laser’s Edge and Cuneiform Records, both of which are record companies which focus on prog rock (see here and here and here and here). From 2004 through 2007, Progressive Arts organized the NEARfest pre-show and, in 2005, I was able to snag an event program from the Friday show, photos of which are posted below. Starting in 2008 until the Festival’s conclusion, Friday evening simply became an official part of the Festival proper.

I also posted a review of NEARFest 2005 which you can see here. The review contains many photographs from the event. I also posted the main NEARFest 2005 Event Program here.